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Hosta Dying or Wet

wazza63wazza63 Posts: 74
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It ain't looked like this before.Any help appreciated.
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's closing down for winter.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wazza63wazza63 Posts: 74
    Ok!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    As the leaves go slimy just put them on the compost, the whole thing will disappear soon.   You say it hasn’t looked like this before, have you managed to keep it in the green in previous years?  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • wazza63wazza63 Posts: 74
    Lyn said:
    As the leaves go slimy just put them on the compost, the whole thing will disappear soon.   You say it hasn’t looked like this before, have you managed to keep it in the green in previous years?  
    First season never had hosta before thanks for the reply
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    As it's in a pot you would do well to make sure the pot is sheltered from extreme cold and wet this winter.  I take mine into unhetaed shelter and start watering lightly again in spring as the daffs show their foliage.  Bring the pots out again when the bullet shaped shoots start to show.  I sometimes think watching those shoots show and slowly unfurl is the best bit of hosta growing.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’d always found hostas a bit boring until I got to
    know them in their gorgeous autumn colours ... fantastic yellows 😎 ... they’re beginning to look beautiful just now ... hopefully the soggy wet weather won’t cause this stage to be over too quickly.   

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Mine are turning fast, very wet here. 
    Did the one I sent you take Dove? I can send another if it’s a better time of the year? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh it’s fantastic @Lyn ... it’s done really well this summer ... it’s not changing colour yet 

    yours is front right in this pic. 
    Look at the gorgeous colour of Fire & Ice at the top left of the pic. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Brilliant, they don’t get slugs eaten so much as the others. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    Lyn said:
    Brilliant, they don’t get slugs eaten so much as the others. 
    Mine were eaten terrible by slugs this year as I tried organic friendly to wildlife slug pellets for the first time. I can confirm they are friendly to wildlife as they don't even kill slugs
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